Decentralizing health services: More local accountability or just more central control?

S Peckham; Mark Exworthy; I Greener; M Powell

Decentralizing health services: More local accountability or just more central control?

S Peckham, Mark Exworthy, I Greener, M Powell

Health Services Management Centre

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Abstract

This article examines the continuing debate about, and inter-relationship between, the NHS, decentralization and local participation. The focus of the article is the experience of decentralization and participation over the past 25 years and, drawing on a new conceptualization of decentralization, it identifies the extent to which the NHS supports decentralized approaches to participation.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	221-228
Number of pages	8
Journal	Public Money & Management
Volume	25
Issue number	4
Publication status	Published - Aug 2005

Keywords

PERFORMANCE
GOVERNMENT
COUNTRIES

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